#ScavengerHunt2 animal smaller than a toaster Tiny electric seahorses! JT Nero x Mountains & Forests (ft Allison Russell on harmony vocals) I normally prefer to post a LIVE version but not everyday I get the chance to post a cute sea horses video 🐠🌊🐴 m.youtube.com/watch?v=azE4...

#ScavengerHunt2 Alsarah & the Nubatones x Habibi Taal (oh my love) From Allison Russell’s playlist, NYC-based Sudanese 🇸🇩 🎶 joy, loved all over the 🌍 🎼My love is gold, others are copper My love is gold, others are copper Love should be like this or not at all

#ScavengerHunt2 gag / gift In this hour of chaos, here’s the genius of John Hegley to cheer us all up Ft probably the best furniture rhyme in the English language 😊 🎼#EddieDontLikeFurniture Na na na na na na na If u buy him some for Xmas He’ll return-it-to-ya

#ScavengerHunt2 found in medieval castle Birds of Chicago x Barley🌾 One of my♥️songs as it feels like it’s always existed but also s/thing that only Allison Russell would write Usually sung voice only, this🔥LIVE version ft JUNO 🏆 Steve Dawson on 🎸 52:30~

#ScavengerHunt2 fits in a thimble Peter Tosh x Downpressor Man 🎼I wouldn’t like to be a flea Under your collar, man A 🎶 admired by Allison Russell who sang it live, Peter Tosh 🇯🇲 (one of the OG Wailers) wrote this 🎶 for justice, evolved from the song Sinner Man

#ScavengerHunt2 s/thing that makes a boing or thud Birds of Chicago x Trampoline One of my ♥️ LIVE performances of this fun JT Nero song 🎶 2014 Watch out for JT’s comeback live show 7 May 🔥 “Allison’s voice is straight from heaven. Best band that no one’s heard of” m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gho...

#ScavengerHunt2 Hope Foy d. last yr at 103. Another inspirational artist I found 🙏🏽 to this challenge 🖤 1st to sing Lilac Wine 💔 soprano & civil rights activist forced to leave USA in the McCarthy era 🖤 became one of first Black women to have TV show in Mexico

#ScavengerHunt2 wallet I’ve not seen this one picked yet & as Allison posted Tom this month I’m taking the opportunity ♥️ simple and magical all at once (for his Kathleen) 🎼She’s my one only true love She’s all that I think of Look here In my wallet That’s her m.youtube.com/watch?v=DRar...

🖤 Happy heavenly birthday, Clara Ward

Clara Ward – one of the remarkable gospel performers of the 20th century – was born today in 1924. Ward emerged from a family of gifted singers to take the lead in their vocal ensemble – later, she broke out on her own. Ward was just gaining traction in the pop world when she died suddenly in 1973.

#ScavengerHunt2 rubber ✨Allison Russell x No Springtime i’d never heard of this word before, but it’s a perfect match for ARs latest beautiful 🎶 🎼 Rubberneckin’ at the highway wreck… Ft Joy Oladokun & Julie Williams 🎤Meg McCormick 🎸 Liz Pupo-Walker🪘Lisa Coleman 🎹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLX...

#ScavengerHunt2 found at the beach From the trailblazing Yasmin Williams album Urban Driftwood YW ✍🏽 Driftwood refers to my 🎸 & how it’s made out of a literal piece of driftwood I found this album thru Allison Russell’s playlist it’s still a thing of wonder to me 🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnDe...

#ScavengerHunt2 Joy Oladokun x Look Up ‘Cause s/times lifting your head / spirits up is the hardest thing 🎼Look Up, do you see the sunlight? Joy ft on Allison Russell’s latest 🎶 w/ Julie Williams. AR ✍🏽 I’ve been uplifted & empowered by their brilliant art LIVE

#ScavengerHunt2 #MusicChallenge found in a music shop A piano! My son HC Junior starts his yr11 GCSE exams early next month 😳 it’s now revision time so, to wish him luck for a final big push, here’s a 1 min taste of his own 🎹 composition ☘️ Any ♥️ appreciated! 😊 🎶 🙏🏽

#ScavengerHunt2 Ok so technically this is drink more than food, but this is the beautiful Arooj Aftab x Beck x Lilac Wine & I’m here for it 💜 🎼I made wine from the lilac tree Put my heart in its recipe New release for War Child. AA was the first 🇵🇰 to win a Grammy 🏆 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljj0...

#ScavengerHunt2 appliance The magical Valerie June x Workin’ Woman Blues 🎼Ain’t no dinner on the table Ain’t no food in the ‘fridgerator I’ll go to work & I’ll be back later m.youtube.com/watch?v=b5_g...

#ScavengerHunt2 Billie Holiday x Strange Fruit April is the 111th anniv of Billie’s BD 👏🏽 Allison Russell ✍🏽 Billie was hounded by gov agencies who wanted to silence her... For 20 yrs BH closed every set with this U cannot listen to this recording & be unmoved

#ScavengerHunt2 Julie Williams x Southern Curls Julie ft on Allison Russell’s latest 🎶 along w/ Joy Oladokun 💫 a lot of the most honest, original & talented artists rn are queer, Black women - and Julie is absolutely one of them 🖤 🌈 🎶

👏 Congratulations to Sade Adu, the first British black woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #MusicSky #Sade rockhall.com/sade/

#ScavengerHunt2 Brandi Carlile x Allison Russell x Emmylou Harris 🎼 There won’t be a mention in the #NewsOfTheWorld About the life & the death of a #RedDirtGirl Named Lillian A brilliant version of a brilliant ELH 🎶, esp the ✨harmonies around 4:00~ LIVE 1:52~

#ScavengerHunt2 Hozier x Allison Russell 🌺 Wildflower & Barley 🌾 I ♥️ ARs harmony vocals, the way she weaves in her voice to make the whole better This is one of her most loved duets, her 1st 🎶 to hit 1m YT views 🥰 🎼 As useful as #dirt Put my body to work 🌱 m.youtube.com/watch?v=_d-2...

You are not what you’ve lost What remains should not bear the cost #musicsky #allisonrussell youtu.be/jD1z-CPgO2s?...

Allison Russell covering one of Sarah McLachlan's prettiest songs? Yes PLEASE!

An update from Moogaland. Some of you might remember that I have been doing digital painting, well I finally got the UV printer and I can finally print my work. I am considering an art gallery for Cats and Dogs and owners who want their pets to have art they can appreciate.😂

#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge #MusicSky March 31 - International Transgender Day of Visibility: Songs by artists who are transgender or are their allies & supporters Allison Russell - The Returner www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQu1...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky A song from an unusual/exceptional artist. Funny, that's all I listen to: Allison Russell, "The Returner" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQu1...

#ScavengerHunt2 something sticky Mary Wells x My Guy 🎼Like birds of a feather, we stick together Born May 1943, Mary Wells rose out of poverty& child meningitis - leaving her with partial blindness and deafness - to become known as The Queen of Motown 🎶 🖤 👑

#ScavengerHunt2 EMEL x Kelmti Horra / My Word Is Free Bravely sung 15 years ago by EMEL on the streets of Tunis 🇹🇳 at the start of the revolution, her hair tied back in a red bow, the song & image went viral Now often sung wearing a keffiyeh scarf in solidarity 🇵🇸 m.youtube.com/watch?v=6a77...

💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 Allison Russell x #NoSpringtime ft Joy Oladokun & Julie Williams The new 🎥 version just released too ✨ 🌱 🌈 🎶 ♥️ 🫶🏽 m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLX...

💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 Allison Russell x Joy Oladokun x Julie Williams new single 🎼There’s #NoSpringtime in the blues Beautiful, uplifting and magical! 🌱 🌈 ✨ 🎶 ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=n34g...

#ScavengerHunt2 it has a lid A 🎹 (w/ a lid)) & a battered 🚙(w/ a hood) Next post on the Allison Russell x Tom Waits 🔗! 🎼U can pound that dent out on the hood Tinker, tailor, a Soldier’s Things His rifle & his boots full of rocks… & everything’s a dollar In this box m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC...

#ScavengerHunt2 something under the bed Sam Phillips x Reflecting Light I was thinking of something from her 🏆 Martinis & Bikinis (see iconic cover below), but then I stumbled on this beautiful 🎶 from A Boot and a Shoe m.youtube.com/watch?v=7aB-...

#ScavengerHunt2 smells “interesting” Joy Oladokun x Smoke 🎼 Yesterday I left my joint sitting on the counter Forgot to put it out yeah… “Sometimes u gotta feel like drowning to be reborn” One of the most gifted singer songwriters around 🖤 💨 🎵 🇺🇸 🇳🇬 m.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7M...

#ScavengerHunt2 Nina Simone x (I want a little) Sugar in my bowl A fun & masterful LIVE performance of a song i first learnt from Rhiannon Giddens (at the same time as she intro’d me to y/day’s pick) 🔗 Something square / cube / sugar lumps!) m.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU9...

#ScavengerHunt2 Alberta Hunter x My Handyman Not 💯, but I’ve a hunch her handyman came complete w/a fully equipped toolbox😉 One of the great 🎶 comebacks at 82yo, force of nature AH had spent the prev 20yrs as a nurse after her mom died 🔥 doc too LIVE 39:00~ m.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPN...

#ScavengerHunt2 Because when you really got that itch, once or twice ain’t enough… Some joyous & rare early LIVE footage fr 1941. Excited to see this 🎶 in the Marie and Rosetta musical on Monday! 🇬🇧 Sister Rosetta Thorpe x Four or Five Times m.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWz...

#AllisonRussell x #FindARainbowDay #Haiku 🐸 🪕 🌈 🎶 🪄 *************************** I give thanks daily To Jim Henson and Muppets They taught me magic ****************************

#ScavengerHunt2 #FindARainbowDay 🌈 Girls x Down Home Girl Complete w/ turnip green perfume, a great fun cover w/ signature 🌈 Girl harmonies 😊 🎼Girl u know that dress you’re wearin’ Is made outta fibreglass Every time u move like that girl I gotta go to Sunday mass m.youtube.com/watch?v=de4b...

Seeing the musical Marie and Rosetta on Monday, the story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight 🎵 Here’s a brilliant LIVE session / insights w/ the two leads Beverley Knight x Ntombizodwa Ndlovu (~15min - 46 min) 🖤 🎸 🖤 🙏🏽@bardofsomerset.bsky.social for the intro 😊

#ScavengerHunt2 Happy Easter w/e all! Catching up w/ Utah Phillips🧵 🚂 🐶 🧂 1. condiments 🎼I garnished it with a sprig of parsley, a little paprika. It was beautiful, poetry on a plate. And i served it as dessert, waiting for the first hint of a complaint… 😆 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zb1...

#EmojiSounds ☯️ Happy Birthday Tracy Chapman 🎉 Taking the emoji in its Anti Apartheid form, let’s go back to London 1988 & the Nelson Mandela concert 75,000 people expecting Stevie Wonder, an acoustic guitar & one transcendent talent Fast Car x Across the Lines m.youtube.com/watch?v=5JIO...

#EmojiSounds bonus 💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 Allison Russell x Sarah McLachlan x Joni Michell medley LIVE at JUNOs on Joni’s Lifetime Achievement award last night m.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwm...

#EmojiSounds 🤥 Allison Russell x 4th Day Prayer From dark days of childhood to performing tonight at the JUNOs w/ Joni & Sarah Mc 🇨🇦 🏆 One of the great musical journeys🧵 🎼If I’d have believed it I’d have died But something told me that they lied Oh I Oh I survived m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNIz...

#EmojiSounds Sandy Denny the ballad Little Musgrave/ Matty Groves is 400yrs old It ft young ♥️(wrong but wromantic) &the Lord (right but not repulsive) 🎼I have two 🗡️ in one scabbard Full dear they cost me purse & u shall take the best of them & I will take the worse m.youtube.com/watch?v=dtVk...

#EmojiSounds 🎨 It’s the 🇨🇦 JUNO Awards this w/e & best wishes to all nominees incl golden-voiced, indigenous artist William Prince I love this song (& the whistling). Also ft #GoldieHawn & Joni 🎼She’s a picture in the gallery Music, Pink & Blue Georgia O’Keeffe m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zVT...

#EmojiSounds Looks like the 💋 messed up the #️⃣ last time, so reposting as it’s a good’un… 😊 🎵

#EmojiSounds💋 🎼Maybe it’s the art maybe it’s the sex Maybe it’s the homeless maybe it’s the banks Maybe it’s the clearcut maybe its the ozone Maybe it’s the chemicals maybe it’s the carphones Maybe it’s the end but I know 1 thing #IfItWereUpToMe I’d take away the guns m.youtube.com/watch?v=Op7a...

#EmojiSounds Cheryl Wheeler x My Cat’s Birthday 🎁 🐈 I found this fun 🎶 (&intro) the other day & sharing for all #Caturday loving folks out there. It’s also a lovely example of the creative & fun side of her music 😊 m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQtR...

First heard this song on my mom’s cousin’s record player. She turned me on to some great music when I was a pre-teen. Still love it today. Plus… the GREAT Bernard Purdie! 🥁 #EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge Day 25 - 📺 Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised youtu.be/QnJFhuOWgXg?...

#emojisounds I was going for Gill Scott Heron but that’s been picked so taking a different angle - a clip from the Graham Norton 📺 show A new addition to Allison Russell’s playlist, here’s something special w/ Gorillaz ft Kara Jackson x Anoushka Shankar Orange County m.youtube.com/watch?v=QO7b...